Advance Program for the Technical Paper Sessions
Opening Session (Wednesday 9:00-10:30)
(Check with Jim Thomas and Bob Young for content here)
Animation (Wednesday 10:45-12:15)
Chair: James F. Blinn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Muscle Model for Animating Three Dimensional Facial Expression
Keith Waters, Middlesex Polytechnic
Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model
Craig W. Reynolds, Symbolics Graphics Division
Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation
John Lasseter, PIXAR
Ray Tracing (Wednesday 1:45-3:15)
Chair: Turner Whitted, Numerical Design Limited
Principles and Applications of Pencil Tracing
Mikio Shinya, Tokiichiro Takahashi, Seiichiro Naito, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Fast Ray Tracing by Ray Classification
James Arvo, David Kirk, Apollo Computer, Inc.
Generating Antialiased Images at Low Sampling Densities
Don P. Mitchell, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Ray Tracing JELL-O
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Brand Gelatin
Paul S. Heckbert, Dessert Foods Division, PIXAR
[note to Jan: Please leave the division in for this one—this paper is a parody, and the "Dessert Foods Division" emphasizes its nature]
Graphics Systems (Wednesday 3:30-5:00)
Chair: Richard J. Beach, Xerox PARC
A Programming Environment for Display Processes
Tom Nadas, Alain Fournier, University of Toronto
FRAMES: Software Tools for Modeling, Rendering and Animation of 3D Scenes
Michael Potmesil, Eric M. Hoffert, AT&T Bell Laboratories
The Reyes Image Rendering Architecture
Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter, Edwin E. Catmull, PIXAR
Surface Rendering (Thursday 9:00-10:30)
Chair: Tony DeRose, University of Washington
Accurate Sampling of Deformed, Intersecting Surfaces
Brian Von Herzen, Alan H. Barr, California Institute of Technology
Adaptive Forward Differencing for Rendering Curves and Surfaces
Sheue-Ling Lien, Michael Shantz, Vaughan Pratt, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Ray Tracing Complex Models Containing Surface Tessellations
John M. Snyder, Alan H. Barr, California Institute of Technology
Curve and Surface Algorithms (Thursday 10:45-12:15)
Chair: Elaine Cohen, University of Utah
Boundary Evaluation of Non-Convex Primitives to Produce Parametric Trimmed Surfaces
Gary A. Crocker, William F. Reinke, Calma Company
Discrete Beta-Splines
Barry Joe, University of Alberta
Direct Least-Squares Fitting of Algebraic Surfaces
Vaughan Pratt, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Stanford University
Volumetric Modeling (Thursday 1:45-3:15)
Chair: Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina
Set Operations on Polyhedra Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees
William C. Thibault, Bruce F. Naylor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm
William E. Lorensen, Harvey E. Cline, General Electric Company
Efficient Algorithms for 3D Scan-Conversion of Parametric Curves, Surfaces, and Volumes
Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Hardware Algorithms (Thursday 3:30-5:00)
Chair: Edwin E. Catmull, PIXAR
Real-Time Manipulation of Texture-Mapped Surfaces
Masaaki Oka, Kyoya Tsutsui, Akio Ohba, Yoshitaka Kurauchi, Sony Corporation
Shading Bicubic Patches
Michael Shantz, Sheue-Ling Lien, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A Parallel Processor Architecture for Graphics Arithmetic Operations
John G. Torborg, Raster Technologies, Inc.
Dynamic Constraints (Friday 9:00-10:30)
Chair: Donald P. Greenberg, Cornell University
Elastically Deformable Models
Demetri Terzopoulos, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
John Platt, Alan H. Barr, California Institute of Technology
Kurt Fleischer, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
Controlling Dynamic Simulation with Kinematic Constraints, Behavior Functions and Inverse Dynamics
Paul M. Isaacs, Michael F. Cohen, Cornell University
Energy Constraints on Parameterized Models
Andrew Witkin, Kurt Fleischer, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
Alan H. Barr, California Institute of Technology
2D Algorithms (Friday 10:45-12:15)
Chair: Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Rectangular Convolution for Fast Filtering of Characters
Avi Naiman, Alain Fournier, University of Toronto
Character Generation Under Grid Constraints
Roger D. Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
An Efficient New Algorithm for 2D Line Clipping: Its Development and Analysis
Tina M. Nicholl, University of Western Ontario
D. T. Lee, Northwestern University
Robin A. Nicholl, University of Western Ontario
Texturing and Shadowing (Friday 1:45-3:15)
Chair: Franklin C. Crow, Xerox PARC
Planar 2-Pass Texture Mapping and Warping
Alvy Ray Smith, PIXAR
Bidirectional Reflection Functions from Surface Bump Maps
Brian Cabral, Nelson Max, Rebecca Springmeyer, UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Shadowing with Texture Maps
William T. Reeves, PIXAR
David H. Salesin, Stanford University
Robert L. Cook, PIXAR
Lighting Models (Friday 3:30-5:00)
Chair: Robert L. Cook, PIXAR
The Zonal Method for Calculating Light Intensities in the Presence of a Participating Medium
Holly E. Rushmeier, Kenneth E. Torrance, Cornell University
A Shading Model for Atmospheric Scattering Considering Luminous Intensity Distribution of Light Sources
Tomoyuki Nishita, Fukuyama University
Yasuhiro Miyawaki, Eihachiro Nakamae, Hiroshima University
A Two-Pass Solution to the Rendering Equation: A Synthesis of Ray Tracing and Radiosity Methods
John R. Wallace, Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg, Cornell University